Tag: weather
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Weather Talk
If it weren’t for COVID, we’d be changing our routines for the weather: last week’s ice, this week’s expected days’-long snow and freezing drizzle and more snow and frigid temperatures that will keep everything from melting down to a clear driveway any time soon. All of this was good for almost an hour’s conversation on […]
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Things Geographers Know
Williams, Will. Geography in Bite-Sized Chunks. Metro Books, 2017. [An installment of the “Read Me” Project.] What comes to mind when someone says “geography”? I immediately think of the hard red plastic pencil case with the map of the United States embossed on the top in scratchy white outlines, and the little wheels on either […]
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Upon Noticing the Oak in the Back Yard on a Rain Day
Tangled gnarled branches withered and wavering against the dismal gusts and hardened autumn gaze of gray impassive sky. Long since the clutching leaves were soft and full and warm, long since the shade and sun embraced and dappled earth o’erspread with romping play. No matter when cold still upright stance gives starker notice in advance […]
Matters of Interpretation 